> -----Original Message----- > From: cfe-dev [mailto:cfe-dev-boun...@lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of Michal > Górny via cfe-dev > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 3:33 PM > To: Hans Wennborg via lldb-dev > Cc: llvm-dev; Release-testers; openmp-dev (openmp-...@lists.llvm.org); > cfe-dev > Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] [lldb-dev] [Release-testers] [Openmp-dev] [4.0 > Release] Schedule and call for testers > > On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:07:25 -0800 > Hans Wennborg via lldb-dev <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Renato Golin <renato.go...@linaro.org> > wrote: > > > On 5 December 2016 at 19:56, Hans Wennborg <h...@chromium.org> wrote: > > >> I'd like to avoid 4.1 because of the potential for confusion about > > >> whether it's a major release (as it would have been under the old > > >> scheme) or a patch release. > > > > > > But if the versioning scheme is different, users will have to > > > understand what it means anyway. > > > > > > Until now we had a weird and very unique logic, and we're moving to a > > > more sensible logic, because it's similar to what some other projects > > > are doing. > > > > > > I can see as much confusion from 4.0.1 -> 5.0.0 than by having a 4.1 > > > that used to be weird before. > > > > > > After a few releases everything will be clear anyway... I really don't > > > want to make the foreseeable future weird again to avoid a potential > > > misunderstanding for one or two releases. > > > > > > Let's just be brutally clear in all release communications and > > > hopefully people will understand. > > > > > > > > >> The alternative would be: > > >> > > >> 3.9.0 > > >> 3.9.1 > > >> 4.0.0 > > >> 4.1.0 <-- Can't tell from the version number what kind of release > this is. > > > > > > No, that has a redundant zero, too. > > > > > > The alternative is: > > > > > > 3.9.0 > > > 3.9.1 > > > 4.0 > > > 4.1 > > > 5.0 > > > 5.1 > > > > I'm worried that users will, with some reason, think that the 4.1 and > > 5.1 releases are the same kind as 2.1 and 3.1 :-/ > > Just do 4a, 4b, 4c ;-). Everyone will be as confused as possible ;-).
Back in the day, every version was identified as "Latest." No possible confusion there! I'm fine with "4.0.1" in keeping with the major.minor.patch convention, given how the in-betweeners are really patch updates not minor versions. --paulr > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
